Edward M. Goldberg

Today, AWS Amazon RDS (Relational Database Servers in the AWS Cloud) are a new Beta and needs to be used as a “peek at that the future” for the IT staff and CTO.  Developers need to wrap their minds around Relational Database as a service.  The time has come for this to be a real SaaS. The “Big Table” was easy to “pu pu” and say “It does not fit the model”.  RDS is the “real thing” a transactional Relational Database with all the bells and … IMHO,  we need to start looking at this new model by placing non-mission critical Backup Systems for Fail Over in RDS.  The cost of transfers into RDS is very small.  The cost for running 1 hour a day is cents.  When you need to fail over,  you can launch a HUGE db server and get ton of performance to make up for the remote location... (more)

AWS RDS Rocks!!!

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer This time AWS has does it right. The Relational Database Servers in AWS called “RDS” are the “Real Thing”. I just transferred over my whole Drupal DB in a few moments to an RDS Instance. Is was very simple. Let me show you the one line command solution: (Warning Linux command comes next!) $ mysqldump –add-drop-table –databases Comments EdwardMGoldberg NOC myCl... (more)

The AWS EC2 Instance Missing Users Guide

When you get a new car you look into the glove box and find a small book that explains the day to day operation of the car.  The same is true for your laptop. What happened to the users guide for the AWS EC2 Servers? First of all AWS calls them instances and gives them strange names like i-12345678 that are not very easy to remember.  So to start off most users are lost just finding the ... (more)

New Relic & RightScale - Ruby on Rails Life Cycle Tools

Cloud Computing and Rails are a natural good fit.  With tools provided by New Relic integrated into the RightScale Deployment and Monitoring platform you have a Best Practice Monitoring system. I Deploy and Watch servers all day as part of the http://myCloudWatcher.com service.  When I started to build the demo for this next RightScale Webinar I learned more about my application in the fi... (more)

Cloud Computing and SVN Export a good match

Cloud Computing and SVN Checkout in the form of an “export” is a very good match. Let me start with an outline of the basic ideas.  You need to store all of the code and content for your server or servers in a safe place.  This is NOT on the server.  If the server dies or is attacked you need to put back the code.  You could say that is is a code backup.  But that is not exactly correct... (more)